The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-08-18


Welded noble institutions and noble men.
There is nothing that so stlrs my soIi as
this thought. One denomination yielded
a Robert Hall and an Adoniram Judson;
another yielded a Latimer and a Melville;
another yielded John Wesley and the
blessed Summerfield, while our own de-
nomination Welded John Knox and the
Alexanders-men of whom the world
was not worthy. Now, | say, if we are
honest and fair minded men, when we
come up in the presence Of such churches
and such denominations, although they
may be different from our own, we
ought to admire them, and we ought
to love and honor them. Churches
which can produce such men, and such
large hearted charity, and such magniiiz
cent martyrdom. ought to win our atfec-
tion-at any rate, our respect. So come
on. ye four hundred thousand Episco-
palans in this country, and We eight hun
dred thousand Preslyterians, and ye two
and half million Baptists, and ye ,lesarlly
three and the e-quarter million Metfo-
distS; come OH. shoulder to shoulder we
will march for the world's conquest for
all nations are to be saved, and God de-
mands that you and I help Go it. For
ward, the whole line.
Moreover, we may also overthrow the
feeling of severe sectarianism by joining
other denominations in Christian work.
like when the springtime comes and the
anniversary occasions begin and all de-
nominations come upon tie same plat
form. That overthrows sectarianlsm. In
the Young Mems Christian association, IN
the Bible society, in the Tract society, 10
the Foreign Missionary society, shoulder
to shoulder all denominations.
Perhaps / might more forcibly Illus
trate tins trukh by calling your attention
to an incident which took place fourteen
or fifteen years ago. One Monday morn
ing, at about O'Clock, while her 500
passengers We're sound asleep in her
berths dreaming Of home, the steamer
Atlantic crashed into Mars Head. Five
hundred souls in ten minutes landed in
eternity! Oh, what a scenel Agonized
n-en and women running up and down
| the gangways, and ciutching for the rig
ging, and the plunge Of the helpless
steamer, and the clapping Of the hands
of the mercilesS sea over the drowning
and the dead, threw two continents into
terror. But see this brave quartermaster
pushing out with the life line until he
gets to the rock, and see these fishermen
gathering up the shipwrecksd and taking
them into the cabins, and wrapping
them in the fannels snug and warm;
and see that minister of the gospel, with
| three other men, getting into a hfebOat
and pushing out for the wreck, pulling
| away across the surf, and pulling away
until they saved one more man, and then
getting back with him to the Shore.
| Can those men ever forget that night?
And can they eyaf forget their compan-
ionship in peril, c0lnpanionship III strug-
gle, companionship in awful catastrophe
and rescue? Never! Never! In what
ever part of the earth they meet, they
will be friends when they mention the
story of that awful night when the At
lantic struck Mars Head.
Well, my friends, our world has gone
into worse shipssreck. Sin drove it on
the rocks. The old ship has lurched and
| tossed in the tempests of six thousand
! years. Out with the life line! / do not
| care what denomination carries II. Out
with the life boatI do not care what
| denomination rows it. Side by side, in
the memory OF common "a. ~.-.-...n- t., an. an.
| common trials, and common prayers, and
common tears, let us be brothers forever.
| We must be. We must be,
One army of the living God,
To whose command we bow;
| Part of the host have crossed the food,
And part crossing
And l expect to see the day when all
denominations Of Christians shall join
hands around the cross of Christ and re-
cite the creed: Il believe in God the
Father Almighty, maker of heaven and
earth, and in Jesus Christ, and in the
communion of saints, and in the life
everlasting" May God inspire us all
with the largest hearted Christian
charityi